This is an analysis of the poem Haunted that begins with:
If you don't leave the feasting of your greed,
It will haunt you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABABAB AbaCDDEacaaDEaX AA CDB AA CDB ffbGHa GHXfhaXhaaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,15,2,3,2,3,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010011 0011 0111010011 11001011 0111010011 0011 0111010011 11001011 10011101 10011 1 11001111 101 00100101 0111 110101110 111 11101001 110 00100101 0111 110101110 101 10011101 110010 11001111 101 00011 10011101 110010 11001111 101 00011 11001111 011001 1 10011101 01101 101010 10011101 01101 10010010101010 01 1001 10 101100101 0110 1 1100101101 0010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, be are repeated.
The author used the same word don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Haunted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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